CORPORATION WARS: DISSIDENCE

Book one of a trilogy so the best place to start. The 'prose is sleek and fast as the technology it describes.' - Peter F. Hamilton. Carlos is dead. A soldier who died for his ideals a thousand years ago, he has been reincarnated and conscripted to fight an A.I. revolution in deep space. He's not sure he's fighting for the right side. Seba is alive. By a fluke of nature, a contractual overlap and a loop in its subroutines, this lunar mining robot has gained sentience. Gathering with other 'freeboots', Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone. As their stories converge against a backdrop of warring companies and interstellar drone combat, Carlos and Seba must find a way to rise above the games their masters are playing, or die. And even dying will not be the end of it. An epic vision of man and machine in the far reaches of space, the writing is fast, funny and sophisticated. 326pp.